The document summarizes the EAGLE project, which aims to create an online archive of Ancient Greek and Latin epigraphy accessible through the EAGLE Portal, Europeana, and Wikipedia. It is funded by the European Commission and involves 19 partner institutions from 11 European countries. The project will contribute over 1.5 million epigraphy records, photographs and translations to Europeana to create a worldwide, free resource on the topic. It aims to establish best practices for heritage institutions and provide easy-to-use tools for users and partners to upload, search and contextualize content.

1. Europeana Projects Group Assembly
The Hague, September 25-26, 2013

2. EAGLE - Europeana Network of
Greek and Latin Epigraphy
A Digital Bridge to the Ancient World
Europeana Projects Group Assembly
The Hague, September 25-26, 2013

3. Rome, S. Sebastiano fuori-le-mura, memoria apostolorvm (memorial of the
Apostles). Devotional graffito of Dalmativs in new Roman cursive (ICVR, V 12932).
Second half of 3rd century.
What is
EAGLE?

4. E- Library for Greek
and Latin Epigraphy
 the new online archive for Ancient Epigraphy in
Europe funded by the European Commission
(3.75 m euro)
 for the first time, collections of the most important European
epigraphy archives are accessible online through:
• EAGLE Portal
• Europeana
• WikiMedia

5. The epitaph for Caius Cestius, inscribed
along the Pyramid of Caius Caestius in
Rome, Italy
Our
Mission

6. Our Mission
 to establish a worldwide, free resource for Greek
and Latin Epigraphy linked to Europeana

7. Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella, Rome
Our
Goals

8. Our Aims
 contributing to Europeana with its collected
Greek and Latin Epigraphy records,
photographs, translations
 creating a Best Practice Network in the field of
Ancient Epigraphy heritage
 offering users and content providers easy-to-use,
multilingual tools to upload, search, enrich,
contextualise & aggregate content

9. Rome, Basilica of S. Sabina, interior of the entrance-wall.
Mosaic building inscription of Peter of Illyria. Pontificate of
Celestine I (422-432).
Our Collections

10. Our Collections & Archives
 EDR
 EDH
 EDB
 Arachne
 Petrae
 Hispania Epigraphica Online
 Last Statues of Antiquity
 Vbi Erat Lupa
 Starc Collection
Total Number of Items:
1.500.000

11. Rome, S. Lorenzo fuori-le-mura, basilica of Pelagius II, triumphal
arch. Mosaic decoration with the dedicatory inscription. Pontificate of
Pelagius II (579-590).
EAGLE
Best Practice Network

12. Who we are
 19 partners
(technological providers
& content providers)
 11 European Countries
 2 Subcontractors
Fragment with a gold-threaded inscription, Museo Nazionale Romano,
Rome, Italy

13. Funerary relief with the portrait of three brothers, Rome, Musei Capitolini
Our Partners

14. Our partners
Content Providers
 Eötvös Loránd University
 Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
 Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of
Sciences and Arts
 German Archaeological Institute
 Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation
 The British School at Rome

15. Our partners
Content Providers
 Sapienza, University of Rome (Project Coordinator)
 University of Bari, "Aldo Moro”
 Heidelberg University
 The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of
Oxford
 University of Alcalà
 Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg
 Babes-Bolyai University

16. Our partners
Technology Providers
 Italian National
Research Council
 University of Leuven
 GOGATE
 PROMOTER
 EUREVA
Marblestone found on the via Appia and preserved in the
Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella, Rome, Italy

17. Our partners
Subcontractors
 Europeana
 Wikimedia Italia

18. Example of an inscription, displayed on a
rock wall within a Roman Quarry.
Our
Audienc

19.  students
 teachers
 researchers
 tourists
 general public
Our Users

20. www.eagle-network.eu

21. Aaron Swartz
In memoriam
Thank you!
raffaella.santucci@uniroma1.it